Dr. Hilman Fathoni
The Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
University of Cologne, Germany
Email: hfathoni(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
Phone: +49 (0)221 470 76106
Short CV
April 2026 – present
Postdoctoral researcher, affiliated with the C02 project (Energy Futures) under the CRC Future Rural Africa (2026 – 2029)
November 2025 – March 2026
Research Associate, Icenergy Institute, Indonesia
April 2025 – November 2025
Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia
February 2025 – November 2025
Teaching Associate, Department of Management, Monash University, Australia
November 2022 – December 2022
Casual Research Assistant, Deakin University, Australia
July 2022 – November 2022
Sessional Teaching Staff, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia
March 2022 – December 2025
Doctoral Researcher in Human Geography, Anthropology and Development Studies (HGADS), Monash University, Australia (Herb Feith Scholar 2022 – 2025)
February 2020 – February 2022
Research Fellow, Center for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management in Southeast Asia and the Pacific (CCROM-SEAP), IPB University, Indonesia
January 2018 – December 2019
The Master of Energy Change (Advanced) Program, Australian National University (ANU), Australia Awards Scholar (2018 – 2019)
2011 – 2016
Bachelor of Geological Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, specialised in the geochemistry of geothermal system (final year thesis)
Research Focus
- Renewable and sustainability transition
- Energy access and off-grid technology
- Rural development and agrarian change
- Community empowerment
- Everyday ethics and morality
- State formation and nation-building
- Anthropological perspectives on geology and earth science